Eric Edgley

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Eric Edgley
Profession	circus director
Personal details
Born	1899 in United Kingdom
Country	Australia

Locations
Title	owner 1965-
Location	at The Great Moscow Circus in Australia

Biography details

Eric Edgley , circus director in Australia

Born 1899 in United Kingdom dead 1967 .

Born as Eric and Clem White, to musician Richard White and dancer Lizzie Warton, they changed their names in their early years to stage names, considering that "White" was uninteresting and became duo "Edgley and Dawe". Eric married an actress Phyllis Edith Amery in 1925, in Newcastle, New South Wales and was widowed when she died during childbirth in 1930, he remarried dancer Edna Louise Luscombe (1910-2000) in 1940 at an registrar office in England.

From the early 1960s Eric arranged tours to Australasia from Russian performing troupes including the Bolshoi Ballet, the Georgian State Dance Company and the Moscow Variety Theatre.

Eric Edgley brought the Moscow State Circus, as Great Moscow Circus, to Australia in 1965. Eric died in 1967 and management of the company was taken over by his then 23-year-old son Michael. The Moscow State Circus tour in 1968 attracted an audience of 1.2 million and grossed more than $7 million.[3] Russian ballet and theatre ensembles returned to Australia under the Edgley banner in 1970, 1976, 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1988.

Family

Total: 1 children

Michael Edgley. Born: 1943.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). director Eric Edgley in Australia. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 27 April 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=2348. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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